How To Identify Chord Inversions Instantly

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Inversions are a fundamental part of learning to play piano for every beginner. They're useful for any style you're learning to help you get familiar with the keyboard and understand how to begin playing chords in different ways. We want to get them fluent eventually so we can use them easily but the first step is to understand them properly, be able to figure them out and learn the basic music theory. Step 2 is actually playing them and getting used to the inversion shapes of every major and minor chord. Step 3 in this video is to practice identifying them and finding them straight away!

🎹 You can watch PART 1 HERE on understanding inversions,
a bit of theory and how to find inversions for any type of chord

🎹 You can watch PART 2 HERE starting to play, see and move through the inversion shapes of one chord at a time with good technique

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TIMESTAMPS ⏰

0:00 What you need to do
0:29 Follow the root
1:23 Finding 1st Inversion shapes (White keys)
4:41 Finding 2nd Inversion shapes (White keys)
7:03 You need to track the intervals, here's how
9:56 Changing between major and minor (Chords with a black key)
14:17 The other chords

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[timewaster]

Sitting here at night in front of my piano, you blew my mind! Your follow the root approach to inversions made able to figure out within 3 seconds the inversions of all chords in the key C in less than 5 minutes!

[sleepystew]

Awesome video, here's an easy alternative way I use to find the root note.
Make an arrow that always points to the right and put it in the biggest gap of the chord.
So, in a C first inversion, E | G -> C
In a second inversion, G -> C | E

[richardb]

I've been frustrated trying to learn and practice inversions in different keys but your magic formula makes it so easy. They truly are now instantly identifiable and playable. Very grateful. Thank you.

[jonimaricruz]

Thanks for your video and tips, I’m older and I’ve decided to learn piano and actually read music. I play guitar and I know basically how chords are built, but piano is so different, everything’s laid out beautifully flat, so to speak, and your video’s been very helpful in figuring things out. Enjoy the holidays! 🫶✌️

[raymondjoseph]

Excellent explanation, as always. Do you have an inversion video dealing with 7th chords?

[lpa]

I love this! Such an easy and clear explanation. If only everyone explained piano theory the way you do, It would be so much simpler. Thanks so much.👌

[angieLoved]

Wow....you've made inversions easier to understand. Thank You. Great lesson.

[vincemorgan]

Fantastic video! So practical and filled with useful tips. Thanks!!

[lawrencetaylor]

You really have a good system for learning about chords. I'm glad I found your channel early on. Today was a review, but it always helps.

[kikumi]

Thanks SO much for this video. It's been very helpful in my journey of learning the piano. I totally get inversions much better now when you describe it as shapes. I'm a visual person so this explanation ROCKS! Wow!

[Humanbeering]

Damn this makes sense, I have started with another method moving fingers one at a time up, following the root is much easier

[T-marie-N]

Love this! When I started learning inversions I watched that root note like a hawk--this expands on that and makes it so much easier to see what I'm supposed to be playing. Thank you!

[noeljager]

What a great explanation - Thank you :)

[pds]

Excellent lesson. Thank you. I've been struggling with inversions and have found them a bit scary. This video has been the perfect, timely antidote.

[GuruNishtha]

Great tutorial. Very useful indeed. Highly impressed. Stay well and blessed.

[nedesp]

that was VERY helpful. Finally an easier way than thinking through the whole thing before I know what is what. Thanks!

[leahgodson]

So well explained; thank you very much!

[anishpatelwork]

Perfect timing. I've just been working through chord inversions for the first time. This explains how to find the inversions so much easier based on shape rather than how I was doing it

[snehadeshmukh]

One of the best way to teach piano !!!
Great work, thanks for the technique to learn inversions in the easiest way !!🤗

[gracedakis]

Amazing! Thank you for saving me hours of learning! I will look at your other videos